Orion Nebula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 , M42 , or NGC 1976 ) is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye ...
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Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars ... X-ray flares in the Orion Nebula (external link) ... Orion and other constellations in different wavelengths (external link)
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The Orion Nebula Messier 42 (M42, NGC 1976) is the brightest starforming, and the brightest diffuse nebula in the sky, and also one of the brightest deepsky objects at all. ... It is somewhat unusual that the Orion Nebula has found its way into Messier's list, together with the bright star clusters Praesepe M44 and...
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Edge-on protoplanetary disk in the Orion nebula ... This color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Seamlessly composited from a mosaic of 15 separate fields, it covers an area about five percent that covered...
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Explanation: Few astronomical sights excite the imagination like the nearby stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away.
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The Orion Nebula: The Jewel in the Sword ... Caption : PR Photo 03a/01 is a colour composite mosaic image of the central part of the Orion Nebula , based on 81 images obtained with the infrared multi-mode ISAAC instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory.
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Revisiting the Orion Nebula ... The Orion Nebula (ESO/MPG 2.2 + WFI) ... In fact, located at a distance of 1500 light years, the Orion Nebula plays such an important role in astrophysics that it can be argued that our understanding of star formation is for a large part based on the Orion Nebula.
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M42/M43, NGC1976, Orion Nebula ... The Orion Nebula (M42/M43, NGC1976/1982) ... This picture shows the great nebula in the constellation of Orion the Hunter.
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